The 72-year-old singer on abortion rights, barbequed bologna, and the connection between Hank Williams and William Shakespeare.

Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. His first home had no running water.

I got no axes to grind and nothing to hide. Anything you want to talk to me about, please do. You will not offend me, I promise you.

I am very pro-life. I am very pro-family. I am very pro-God. I very much believe in what I write and what I say.

I don't like the terminology Left/Right, Republican/Democrat, because you're swinging an awful wide loop there, and you're liable to catch some people in it you don't want to.

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Time is too important, too precious to spend in dissension. I despise arguing. I can get along with anybody in the world if they give me a chance to. If I can't get along with them, I just won't go around them. I try to live in peace with people. I was probably on my way to learning anyway, but I'm sure having the prostate cancer fortified my view to some extent.

I'm having a colonoscopy every two years. I call him the cable guy.

I don't think Elvis was Richard Burton, but I think his acting capabilities were way past what they ever gave him to do. I think he could've done more.

I worked at a creosote plant. I had a bunch of black workmates, and they kept talking about Randy's Record Shop, and I had no idea what they were talking about. I come to find out what it was was WLAC in Nashville -- late at night, they would go to what they called "blues radio." I was living in North Carolina, but the station came in at night like a local station, and these black guys used to listen to it all the time. It was a whole 'nother world out there that we had never been exposed to.

My dad knew more about a pine tree than anybody I've ever met.

You owe them a show regardless of how many of them it is, or if you've had a fight with your wife, or you have a hangover. When you start forgetting that, those people don't show up the next time you come to town.

I try, I really try, to entertain people.

I love playing golf -- I don't want to spend my life doing it. I love riding horses -- I don't want to spend my life doing it. I love fishing, but if I fished all the time, I'd get tired of it.

Forty-four years. Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them. Keep your attention at home.

I don't like renting stuff. I like to own stuff. I like ownership. We own both buses and the truck.

Every time I get a dog, something happens to it. We live out in the country, and you raise dogs in the country, they don't know anything about cars, and they'll run up under one. I had one dog that got snakebit, and I've had a couple three run over. So I just decided, till I could stay home more, there's no sense having a dog.

"That lonesome whip-poor-will, he sounds too blue to fly, the midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry." Shakespeare never said it any better. But you can like Hank Williams and you can still like Shakespeare.

The only places you can get a decent piece of barbecued brisket is Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas.

You ever eat barbecued bologna? In Oklahoma, I guess they put it on a spit. They gash it and they brush it with sauce and cook it -- it's really good. They put a roll of it on. It's very good. Oh, you must try it sometime.